Giancarlo Guerrero was born on March 14,1969 and is a Costa Rican orchestra conductor, born in Nicaragua.
12 Facts About Giancarlo Guerrero
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Giancarlo Guerrero is currently music director of the Nashville Symphony and music director-designate of the Sarasota Orchestra, and artistic director and principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival.
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Giancarlo Guerrero emigrated to Costa Rica, where he joined the Costa Rica Youth Symphony and the Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra.
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Giancarlo Guerrero graduated from Baylor University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1991, and he earned a master's degree from Northwestern University.
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Giancarlo Guerrero was music director of the Tachira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.
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Giancarlo Guerrero was the music director of the Eugene Symphony from 2001 to 2008.
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In June 2004, Guerrero was awarded the Helen M Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide.
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Giancarlo Guerrero has served as principal guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon.
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An advocate of new music and contemporary composers, Giancarlo Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the works of American composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Roberto Sierra, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Daugherty, and Roberto Sierra.
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Giancarlo Guerrero's first recording with the Nashville Symphony, on Naxos, of Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony and Deux Ex Machina, won three 2011 Grammy Awards, including the category of Best Orchestral Performance.
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In 2018, Giancarlo Guerrero won his sixth GRAMMY Award for a recording of music by Jennifer Higdon.
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In July 2024, Giancarlo Guerrero first guest-conducted at the Grant Park Music Festival.